self-confident - Story 125133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold sweat gathering on Maya’s palms had nothing to do with fear. It was the adrenaline. This whole accusation thing was absurd, a ridiculous waste of her time. The accusing faculty member, with his perpetually furrowed brow, looked utterly baffled. He couldn't understand her work.

“Honestly, Professor,” she said, her voice carrying a light, dismissive tone, "are you sure you understand the subject matter at hand? My paper meticulously deconstructs post-structuralist thought. It's not exactly basic stuff." She leaned forward, resting her elbows on the table, her gaze unwavering.

She felt a thrill of anticipation. This was a challenge, a chance to prove her point, to further solidify her standing. She would crush them.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458